THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE February 1, 1951 Mill City Proud of New Industry from their lumber planer plant as By ARTHUR L. DAVIS Mill City's new industry, a com­ fuel for a boiler in the process of mercial lumber dry kiln, hums a generating steam. cheerful note as it busily works at The result is happy indeed—as the the task of lumber drying because previously wasted shavings fly off of the foresight and hard work of the planer, a conveyor belt picks the Carl Kelly family, pioneers in them up and carries them to a boiler community progress in Mill City. fire nearby. To the uninitiated the Carl Kelly, father of Russell and steam plant of the Kelly brothers is Carl Kelly present owners of the Mill an ominous thing as it seethes, roars, City Planning and Processing com­ and thunders through the agony of pany, started the company in Mill steam generation. City in 1935. After the death of When the dry kiln is operating, the their father, Carl and Russell took thermostats with seeming human in­ over the operation of the enterprise. telligence direct the introduction of In October of last year, the new more steam, the opening or closing cross-circulation lumber dry kiln of the ventilators on the roof of the went into operation. kiln, and the movement of a record­ In view of the fact that the proper ing instrument which puts down a operation of a lumber dry kiln is a permanent record of conditions inside risky business for those who are not the lumber dry kiln. well informed of the process, Carl Thermostats properly placed inside Kelly was delegated for the duty of the dry kiln provide the signals that No cheerful little tearful is two- attending a special course on lumber keep the temperature in all areas of year-old Gordon Miller, a polio patient at Utica, N. Y., Children's I drying taught in Oregon State in the kiln at the correct level. Ther­ Hospital. But the March of Dimes Corvallis. mostats also direct the nuzzling of —through the Herkimer County Oregon's Forest Products Labora- steam into the atmosphere of the dry Chapter of the National Founda­ tory in Corvallis is reputed as being kiln when the drying operation proves tion for Infantile Paralysis—is second to none. The only forest pro­ too rapid for the automatic controller. helping Gordon back to health and a smiling future. ducts research station approaching Lumbermen agree that the drying it in completeness is a federal station , of wood is a very complex process and much is yet undiscovered. A dry That I may come with a firm and located in Wisconsin. tranquil mind to the work of this | Just watching the activity of the ! kiln operator need not, however, day, fearing nothing John Walker. ¡Mill City lumber dry kiln one gets understand all the details of the move­ the impression that this 20,000 board ment of moisture through wood. i feet per day commercial lumber dry He may assume that the moisture lti ! kiln is indeed a modern, advance- each piece of wood tends to bleed out BARBEQUED BE EE, ] designed plant taking a back seat to evenly during the drying process. 'none other in the great Northwest. The movement of moisture through PORK and Since the lumber dry kiln must have wooii is affected by a number of con- plenty of steam for heat and moisture ¡trollible outside factors. Only two of TURKEY control, the Kelly Brothers put two them need be considered here—the Open 6 a.m. to 12 midnight and two together and decided they temperature and the humidity of the Saturday—Open All Night could put to good use the shavings atmosphere surrounding the wood, that is, of the air in the kiln. Circu­ lation of this air, adequate in both uniformity and volume, is necessary MARCH»* DIMES in order to control its temperature and its humidity; in fact the success JANUARV 11-11 Mehama, Ore. of a kiln-drying operation depends very largely upon the proper regula­ tion of heat, humidity, and circulation. The chief aim in seasoning wood, whether such drying takes place in the kiln or elsewhere, is to remove part of the moisture naturally pre­ sent in it, which if allowed to remain would ordinarily interfere seriously I with its use. The amount of moisture to be removed depends upon both the ¡quantity present and the use for which the wood is scheduled. It is I seldom necessary, except in test cases, I or even advisable to remove all the I moisture in green lumber and leave it oven-dry. I If lumber comes from the dry kiln too brittle or stiff, the humidity should be raised, but if the indiviual slabs of lumber are too soft, or pli- able, the humidity of the kiln should have been lowered during the drying operation. y T-y »- ej Due to the installation of a Moore 1 I * w Autographic Master controller, ven­ VL 4 L J- a$V tilation in the Kelly Brothers’ dry kJ £ f 1 ! ** L <5 * -it .■» ... kiln is placed under the positive con­ trol of a trusty agent helping to maintain the proper humidity inside the kiln by utilizing moisture coming from the drying lumber and reducing the amount of steam required. This Shown is a package of lumber stock inside one of the two-tunneled Moore Dry Kiln operated by ( arl and Russel) Kelly of this city. Standing on the track of the lumber carrier is Joe Slater, dry kiln foreman. (Photo Courtesy of Bob Veness and The Statesman) SOUTHERN BAR-B-Q NOW Riverside Ramblers 3 piece Western Swing Band Sun. each week t ) • • IV * F Carl Kelly, co-partner and brother of Russell Kelly, here performs the ticklish task of allowing the proper amount of steam to enter the kiln when first placed into operation for drying a package of green lumber. Back of Carl can be seen one of the two Moore Autographic Master Controllers installed in the up-to-date dry kiln in the Mill City Planing and Processing Co. (Photo Courtesy of Bob Veness and The Statesman) simple instrument also controls the temperature at each of the kiln independently. This, finger on the pulse, control is a must in order that a temperature of some 200 degrees fahrenheit and correct humidity be maintained dur­ ing the drying of a package of green lumber. A nice payroll is provided Mill City by some 20 men now employed by the Kelly Brothers in the operation of their re-manufacturing plant. 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